In the age of multiple ways to get your fix of news, I would like to put a hand up for radio journalism. It is a little known fact that there were 19 finalists from Australia at the recent New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards. These ranged from biographies to coverage of international affairs, from breaking stories to insightful community portraits. A podcast on life on Manus Island by the Wheeler Centre won a top honour. To be a…
Let’s start with the facts. Population rose by 21% in the ACT from March 2007 to 2017 (338,200 to 409,100) more than all other states and territories except for WA and on par with Victoria. Canberra is the top performing hotel market in 2017 so far in terms of revenue per available room and domestic tourists overnighting in hotels has risen 25% in 2017. Canberra is forecast to have the strongest growing housing market of all cities. The capital has…
Grand final week is upon us and while we at Daymark have been keeping an eye on our beloved teams, we have also been watching the reputation of the AFL and NRL codes. And it has been a season of ups and downs for both codes, but interestingly both codes’ reputation ends up at about where they started back in February 2017 (see graph). We ask a nationally representative sample of 1500 people across Australia each month to rate the…
‘The company spokesman declined to comment.’ ‘The company did not make themselves available for interview.’ ‘The organisation did not respond before deadline.’ These statements and similar are counter-productive. In recent days, we have seen a ticketing company, a mining giant and a senior politician stick to this script. We have also witnessed the spokesman for an international bicycle scheme come onto the radio and spout platitudes, talk in circles and ignore facts. Companies and people that do this are stuck…
I was lucky enough to attend the Australian Transport Summit (ATS) in Sydney on 18 August. The fifth ATS was jointly presented by the Tourism and Transport Forum and the UITP. The organisers brought together a mix of ‘transport types’ from Australia and around the world. The international speakers included people from the USA, Singapore, France and the UK. The key theme of the event was the future: traditionally transport has been characterized by a focus on infrastructure and vehicles…
Last week, Donald Trump launched a new TrumpTV weekly news bulletin to combat “fake news” and ensure his version of events was being heard. The result was unsurprisingly an audio-visual version of a company media release. It was neither real, in terms of a comprehensive account of events, nor completely fake, in terms of being inaccurate. Whether you call the news real, fake, biased or targeted probably depends on whether you agree with what is being said or not. The…
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